How to Setup a Quiz Activity

How to Setup a Quiz Activity

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Overview
The Quiz activity in LMS allows instructors to create assessments with various question types like multiple choice, true/false, and short answer. Quizzes can be timed, graded automatically, and set to allow multiple attempts. 

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to set up a quiz activity.

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Step Tutorial
InfoNOTE: You need Teacher or Manager access before you can perform this action.

Step 1: To start making changes on your course page, toggle the Edit mode on.


Step 2: Once the edit mode is enabled, click on Add an activity or resource.


Step 3: Choose Quiz from the Activities list.

Step 4: Fill out these sections and adjust the settings as needed.
General
Name* - (Required Field) Enter the name of the quiz activity

Description – Add description for the quiz activity if needed, otherwise this can be left blank.

Display description on course page - (Checkbox) If enabled, the description will be displayed on the course page just below the link to the activity or resource.
Timing
Open the quiz - You can specify the date and time when the quiz becomes accessible for students to attempt. Before the specified opening date and time, the quiz will be unavailable to. Students will be able to view the quiz introduction but not the questions. Quizzes scheduled to open in the future will display both the open and close dates to students.

Close the quiz - After the closing time, students will no longer be able to start new attempts. Any answers submitted after the quiz closing date will be saved but will not be marked. Even after the quiz has closed, students will still be able to view the quiz description and review their attempts. What they can see exactly depends on the review options you have configured.

Time Limit - By default, quizzes do not have a time limit, allowing students as much time as they need to complete the quiz. If you do specify a time limit, several measures are taken to help ensure the quiz is completed within that time:
  1. A countdown timer is displayed in the quiz navigation block.
  2. When the timer runs out, the quiz is automatically submitted with whatever answers have been entered up to that point.
  3. If a student manages to exceed the allotted time, no marks are awarded for any answers submitted after the time has expired.
When time expires - There are three options as to what will happen when the time limit is up. Choose the one you need from the dropdown menu:
  1. Open attempts are submitted automatically (This is the default)
  2. There is a grace period when open attempts can be submitted, but no more questions answered
  3. Attempts must be submitted before time expires, or they are not counted
If you select "There is a grace period...", you can tick the box to enable the "Submission grace period" and specify a period of time during which learners may still submit the quiz after the time is up.
Grade
Grade Category - This setting controls the category in which this activity's grades are placed in the gradebook.

Grade to pass - This setting determines the minimum grade required to pass. The value is used in activity and course completion, and in the gradebook, where pass grades are highlighted in green and failed grades in red.

Attempts allowed - The number of allowable attempts to retake the quiz. Range is from 1-10 up to Unlimited.

Grading method - When multiple attempts are allowed, the following methods are available for calculating the final quiz grade:
  1. Highest grade of all attempts
  2. Average (mean) grade of all attempts
  3. First attempt (all other attempts are ignored)
  4. Last attempt (all other attempts are ignored)
Layout
New Page - For longer quizzes, it makes sense to stretch the quiz over several pages by limiting the number of questions per page. When adding questions to the quiz, page breaks will automatically be inserted according to this setting. However, page breaks may later be moved manually on the editing page.

Navigation Method – (Click Show more.. for this field to appear) When sequential navigation is enabled a student must progress through the quiz in order and may not return to previous pages nor skip ahead.
Question Behaviour
Shuffle within questions - If set to Yes, the parts making up each question will be randomly shuffled each time a student attempts the quiz, provided the option is also enabled in the question settings. This setting only applies to questions that have multiple parts, such as multiple choice or matching questions.

How questions behave - The following question behaviours are available when creating a quiz (also when previewing questions):
  1. Deferred feedback - Students must enter an answer to each question and then submit the entire quiz before anything is graded or they get any feedback.
  2. Adaptive mode and Adaptive mode (no penalties) - Allows students to have multiple attempts at the question before moving on to the next question. This behaviour requires that the "Whether correct" box is ticked under "During the attempt" in the "Review options" section, at a minimum.
  3. Manual grading (disabled by default) - This is disabled by default because of potential confusion when selecting a question behaviour. If it is enabled and you select manual grading here, then learners will not get a result until you have manually graded all their questions. Think very carefully about this!
  4. Interactive with multiple tries - Used for allowing multiple attempts on the same question (perhaps with a grade penalty). Students answer the question and click the 'Check' button. If the answer is wrong, the student can click the 'Try again' button to try a new response. Importantly, the question definition must contain hints that will be shown after each incorrect attempt, though the hint text can be as minimal as an HTML non-breaking space. Once the student has got the question right, they can no longer change their response. Once the student has got the question wrong too many times, they are just graded wrong (or partially correct) and get shown the feedback. Unless 'Allow redo within an attempt' was enabled in the 'Question behaviour' settings of the quiz, they can no longer change their answer. There can be specific feedback after each attempt the student makes, in addition to overall feedback about incorrect or correct answers and answer choices. The number of tries the student gets is the number of hints in the question definition plus one, with a minimum of three.
  5. Immediate feedback - Similar to interactive mode in that the student can submit their response immediately during the quiz attempt, and get it graded. However, they can only submit one response, they cannot change it later.
  6. Deferred feedback or Immediate feedback with Certainty-based marking (CBM) - With CBM, the student does not only answer the question, but they also indicate how sure they are they got the question right. The grading is adjusted by the choice of certainty so that students have to reflect honestly on their own level of knowledge in order to get the best mark.
  7. Conditional questions - If using the Interactive with multiple tries or Immediate Feedback behaviour and with the navigation method set to 'Free', it is possible to make the display of a question dependent on a previous question being answered first.
The question editing page will display padlock icons to the right of each question.

Each attempt builds on the last - (Click Show more.. for this field to appear) If multiple attempts are allowed and this setting is enabled, each new quiz attempt will contain the results of the previous attempt. This allows a quiz to be completed over several attempts.
Review Options
These options control what information students can see when they review a quiz attempt or look at the quiz reports.
  1. During the attempt settings are only relevant for some behaviours, like 'interactive with multiple tries'. which may display feedback during the attempt.
  2. Immediately after the attempt settings apply for the first two minutes after 'Submit all and finish' is clicked.
  3. Later, while the quiz is still open settings apply after this, and before the quiz closed date.
  4. After the quiz is closed settings apply after the quiz closed date has passed. If the quiz does not have a closed date, this state is never reached.

  1. The attempt - Whether the student can review the attempt at all.
  2. Whether correct - This covers both the textual description 'Correct', 'Partially correct' or 'Incorrect', and any coloured highlighting that conveys the same information.
  3. Maximum marks – The maximum mark available for each question.
  4. Marks - The mark obtained for each question and the overall attempt score. You can only select ‘Marks’ if ‘Maximum marks’ is selected
  5. Specific feedback - Feedback that depends on what response the student gave.
  6. General feedback - General feedback is shown to the student after they have completed the question. Unlike specific feedback, which depends on the question type and what response the student gave, the same general feedback text is shown to all students.
You can use the general feedback to give students a fully worked answer and perhaps a link to more information they can use if they did not understand the questions.
  1. Right Answer - An automatically generated summary of the correct response. This can be limited, so you may wish to consider explaining the correct solution in the general feedback for the question, and turning this option off.
  2. Overall Feedback - The feedback given at the end of the attempt, depending on the student's total mark.
Appearance
Show the user's picture - If enabled, a student's name and picture will be shown on-screen during the attempt, and on the review screen, making it easier to check that the student is logged in as themselves in an invigilated (proctored) exam.

Decimal places in grades - This setting specifies the number of digits shown after the decimal point when displaying grades. It only affects the display of grades, not the grades stored in the database, nor the internal calculations, which are carried out to full accuracy.

Decimal places in marks for questions - The number of digits shown after the decimal point when displaying the grades for individual questions.

Show blocks during quiz attempts - (Click Show more.. for this field to appear) If set to yes then normal blocks will be shown during quiz attempts
Safe Exam Browser
Require the use of Safe Exam Browser - If enabled, students can only attempt the quiz using the Safe Exam Browser. The available options are:
  1. No - Safe Exam Browser is not required to attempt the quiz. 
  2. Yes - Use an existing template A template for the configuration of Safe Exam Browser can be used. Templates are managed in the site administration. Your manual settings overwrite the settings in the template.
  3. Yes - Configure manually - No template for the configuration of Safe Exam Browser will be used. You can configure Safe Exam Browser manually. 
  4. Yes - Upload my own config - You can upload your own Safe Exam Browser configuration file. All manual settings and the use of templates will be disabled. 
  5. Yes - Use SEB client config - No configurations of Safe Exam Browser are on the Moodle side. The quiz can be attempted with any configuration of Safe Exam Browser.
Extra restrictions on attempts
Require password - If a password is specified, a student must enter it in order to attempt the quiz.

Require network address - (Click Show more.. for this field to appear) Quiz access may be restricted to particular subnets on the LAN or Internet by specifying a comma-separated list of partial or full IP address numbers. This can be useful for an invigilated (proctored) quiz, to ensure that only people in a certain location can access the quiz.

Enforced delay between 1st and 2nd attempts - If enabled, a student must wait for the specified time to elapse before being able to attempt the quiz a second time.

Enforced delay between later attempts - If enabled, a student must wait for the specified time to elapse before attempting the quiz a third time and any subsequent times.

Browser security - If "Full screen pop-up with some JavaScript security" is selected,
  1. The quiz will only start if the student has a JavaScript-enabled web-browser
  2. The quiz appears in a full screen popup window that covers all the other windows and has no navigation controls
  3. Students are prevented, as far as is possible, from using facilities like copy and paste
Allow quiz to be attempted offline using the mobile app - If enabled, a mobile app user can download the quiz and attempt it offline.
InfoNOTE: It is not possible for a quiz to be attempted offline if it has a time limit, or requires a network address, or uses any question behaviour other than deferred feedback (with or without CBM).

AI grade for essay question type - Answers to essay type questions will be provided with a suggested grade by eSkilled AI. To learn more about this, you may visit this tutorial: How to Use AI Grading

Webcam identity validation - If you enable this option, students will not be able to start an attempt until they have ticked a checkbox confirming that they are aware of the policy on webcam.

Block attempts if previous attempt is not yet graded - Prevent user from attempting the quiz if the previous attempt is not yet graded.
Overall Feedback
Overall feedback is text that is shown after a quiz has been attempted. By specifying additional grade boundaries (as a percentage or as a number), the text shown can depend on the grade obtained.
Common Module Settings
Availability - If the availability is set to 'Show on course page', the activity or resource is available to students (subject to any access restrictions which may be set).
If the availability is set to 'Hide from students', the activity or resource is only available to users with permission to view hidden activities (by default, users with the role of teacher or non-editing teacher).

ID number - Setting an ID number provides a way of identifying the activity or resource for purposes such as grade calculation or custom reporting. Otherwise, the field may be left blank.
For gradable activities, the ID number can also be set in the gradebook, though it can only be edited on the activity settings page.

Force language - The teacher can force a language to be used in an individual activity, rather than for the whole course. An example is if students are studying a language and the course is in their native language but a particular activity such as Quiz is forced to their target language, to encourage them to focus.

Group mode - This is set up on the course level. When course group mode is turned on and force is set to no, the group mode can be one of three levels on the activity level: no groups, separate groups or visible groups.
  1. No groups - There are no groups and all students submit their individual activities in one area.
  2. Separate groups - Each group member can only see their own group, others are invisible
  3. Visible groups - Each group member works in their own group, but can also see other groups
The group mode defined at course level is the default mode for all activities within the course. Each activity that supports groups can also define its own group mode, though if the group mode is forced at course level, the group mode setting for each activity is ignored.
Restrict Access
Access restrictions - Restriction can be based upon activity completion, course completed, date, grade, other course completion, password, etc. The 'Restriction set' button also allows for more complex criteria requiring nested conditions.
Completion conditions
This allows the teacher to set completion criteria in the settings of a specific activity. A check mark will appear next to the activity once the student meets the criteria. There are three available conditions:
  1. None
  2. Students must manually mark the activity as done
  3. Add requirements – Additional fields will appear. You can adjust the settings as needed.
Set reminder in Timeline – This field will appear if either ‘Students must manually mark the activity as done’ or ‘Add requirements’ is ticked. This allows teacher to set a reminder for students to work on this activity. It will appear in the Timeline block on their Dashboard as ‘Quiz requires action’.
Info
NOTE: A teacher may mark an activity as complete on behalf of a student from the Activity completion report if they have the capability to Override activity completion (which is enabled by default).
Tags
This is used for the searchability of the course.
Competencies
Course competencies - Course competencies linked to this activity.
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Upon activity completion - Choose whether to Do nothing, Attach evidence, Send for review, or Complete the competency.

Step 5: After setting up the quiz, click the available Save buttons below. You may tick the Send content change notification checkbox if you want the participants get notified about the new or changed activity or resource. Only users who can access the activity or resource will receive the notification.


Your Quiz activity will now be displayed in the section where you selected ‘Add an activity or resource’.

To add/edit questions, you may refer to this tutorial: Types of Quiz Activities

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